False indigo or Baptisia australis ranks among one of my favorite plants. The foliage is greenish blue and has flowers that resemble pea flowers. They bloom in early summer.
My neighbor keeps telling me to get rid of this, as it stands towards the front of the border [...]
Archive for November, 2006
27 Nov
F is for false indigo
21 Nov
Thanksgiving ideas
I will be working on Thanksgiving day. So we have decided to cook on Friday. Shopping gives me a headache, and so I have no regrets on missing out on the bargains and staying at home and cooking a meal. What are your plans?
I have no solid plans yet but here is a list of [...]
21 Nov
Potato thoran- potato with shredded coconut.
Potato is a common and indispensable vegetable in most kitchens. At my home this didn’t hold true. The only time my mother cooked potatoes was in sambar. Sometimes in a potato gravy curry to go with appam. The reasons for not using potatoes was never discussed much – ‘gas’ being one of the issues.
My classmates [...]
15 Nov
Fried Green Tomatoes or Green tomato chips
Green tomatoes are real pretty, but it is hard to find recipes for them. Whenever I would look
at these beauties, all I could think of was ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’. So one day after grabbing some
green tomatoes from the garden, I set out on a recipe search. All the recipes basically involved
dipping in some kind [...]
13 Nov
A simple Kerala meal
Clockwise from left: Tomato chaaru curry, vanpayar mezhukupuratti, green tomato thoran.
After being on vacation for about a week, we were craving some home cooked food. Owing to delayed flights, we reached home at 3am instead of 9p.m. Las Vegas had some amazing restaurants and we had some great food. But after a week of eating [...]
12 Nov
Destination: Las Vegas
We were in las vegas for about a week. We still are in Las Vegas airport as our flight is delayed for a few hours because of bad weather in New York. The weather is perfect out here but that doesn’t help us now, does it? Asides from this delay at the airport, we had [...]
7 Nov
E is for Echinacea
I was quite sure I would have to skip participating in this edition of ‘Flower Fest‘. My brain was overwhelmed with deadlines and exams, and I was sure I had nothing to contribute this time. The garden was bare and there was nothing to shoot. But Manisha [...]
1 Nov
D is for Dahlia
Dahlias are so pretty! Having dahlias in your garden is like going to a Broadway show. They are dressed in spectacular colors and their petals are so resplendent!
This was my first time growing Dahlias. I had bought the dahlia tubers from the regular grocery store,brought them home and buried them in the ground in late [...]
